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The impact of the national minimum wage in the apparel industry
Published 2002“…This analysis of the NMW’s initial impact in the apparel industry focuses on organisational and institutional factors in explaining the effects on pay and related issues. …”
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Multisensory perception and positive emotion: exploratory study on mixed item set for apparel e-customisation
Published 2020“…In order tTo improve the quality of online services and enrich the consumer experience of apparel e-customisation, this paper develops item scales that measure positive emotion, visual perception, and haptic perception. …”
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FDI, AGOA and Manufactured Exports by a Landlocked, Least Developed African Economy: Lesotho.
Published 2003“…Lesotho, a resource-poor country located inside South Africa, is now Africa's largest exporter of apparel to the U.S. Its performance, very unusual for Africa, relies heavily on Asian investors and trade privileges. …”
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FDI, AGOA and Manufactured Exports by a Landlocked, Least Developed African Economy: Lesotho.
Published 2005“…Lesotho, a resource-poor country located inside South Africa, is now Africa's largest exporter of apparel to the U.S. Its performance, very unusual for Africa, relies heavily on Asian investors and trade privileges. …”
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The Trade Restrictiveness of the Multi-fibre Arrangement.
Published 1994“…This study uses the trade restrictiveness index (TRI) of Anderson and Neary (1990) to evaluate U.S. policy toward seven major exporters of textiles and apparel under the Multi-Fibre Arrangement (MFA). The period covered is 1982-88. …”
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The trade restrictiveness of the Multi-Fibre Agreement
Published 1994“…This study uses the trade restrictiveness index (TRI) of Anderson and Neary (1990) to evaluate U.S. policy toward seven major exporters of textiles and apparel under the Multi-Fibre Arrangement (MFA). The period covered is 1982–88. …”
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From What We Wear to What We Eat: Upgrading in Global Value Chains
Published 2001“…However, firms in horticulture and textile/apparel are governed by a small number of global buyers with demanding requirements. …”
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The trade restrictiveness of the Multi-Fibre Agreement.
Published 1994“…This study uses the trade restrictiveness index (TRI) of Anderson and Neary (1990) to evaluate U.S. policy toward seven major exporters of textiles and apparel under the Multi-Fibre Arrangement (MFA). The period covered is 1982–88. …”
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Global purchasing as labor regulation: the missing middle
Published 2019“…This study offers the first analysis of the full range of supply chain regulatory efforts, integrating records of factory labor audits with purchase order microdata. Studying an apparel and equipment retailer with a strong reputation for addressing labor conditions in its suppliers, we show that it persuaded factories to improve and terminated factories with poor labor compliance. …”
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The enforcement of diverse labour standards through private governance: an assessment
Published 2017“…It examines structural and environmental features of cases encoded in a data set derived from over 1000 audit reports compiled by the Fair Labor Association. Focusing on the apparel, sports- and footwear industry, the article highlights the importance of regulatory quality, economic performance and social freedom in sourcing countries for the success of private governance. …”
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In-bond diversion
Published 2013“…Digging into official Chinese and Mexican trade statistics, we uncover traces of US quota-hopping in-bond diversion by Chinese exports of textiles and apparel. This is because the illicit scheme involves declaring Chinese exports bound for Mexico but diverting them to the US market while in transit, thus creating a gap between Chinese and Mexican reports. …”
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Untangling social compliance: promises and pitfalls of social audit analyses
Published 2019“…This case study describes the promises and pitfalls of studying social audit data in the context of a global private labor governance program in the apparel industry, the Fair Labor Association. The case underlines how a thorough study and knowledge of both governing organization and local environment are essential for the sensible analysis of audit data. …”
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Multi-product firms and product quality
Published 2017“…The product quality ladder also governs firms’ export dynamics, both in general and in response to the exogenous removal of MFA quotas on textiles and apparel. Our results inform the drivers and measurement of firm performance, the effects of trade reforms, and the design of development policies. …”
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Global interdependence and regional development: business linkages and corporate governance in a world of financial risk
Published 1993“…The paper begins with a case study of CORPORATION X, a small global corporation which specializes in the production and sale of brand-name textile and apparel goods. CORPORATION X is a real company but emphasis is placed on the logical implications of its structure and organization for the theory of the firm and regional development in the western Pacific. …”
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'An ocean untouched and untried': translating Livy in the sixteenth century
Published 2016“…By locating these translations in the cultural and political contexts from which they emerged, this study reveals how Livy was exploited in some of the most pressing debates of the period, from arguments over women's apparel to questions of faith. The thesis also considers how these translations responded to the most recent developments in European scholarship on the Ab Urbe Condita and on classical history more generally. …”
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Virtue out of necessity? Compliance, commitment, and the improvement of labor conditions in global supply chains
Published 2009“…Through a detailed study of a major global apparel company and its suppliers, this article argues that this compliance model rests on misguided theoretical and empirical assumptions concerning the power of multinational corporations in global supply chains, the role information (derived from factory audits) plays in shaping the behavior of key actors (e.g., global brands, transnational activist networks, suppliers, purchasing agents, etc.) in these production networks, and the appropriate incentives required to change behavior and promote improvements in labor standards in these emergent centers of global production. …”
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Textiles, furs and liveries : a study of the material culture of the court of Edward I (1272-1307)
Published 1992“…The king and his family appeared to their entourage in an apparel stressing the specificity of the royal lineage. …”
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A new approach to evaluating trade policy.
Published 1992“…Applying these empirical methods to exports of textiles and apparel from Hong Kong to the United States, the authors find that the protective system becomes more restrictive for both countries over the seven years considered (1982-88). …”
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